Maryborough a haven for ghosts

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Maryborough a haven for ghosts
16th March 2009
Averyll Loft
Fraser Coast Chronicle

KERRY Williams digs through a half-a-dozen or so photo albums, picks one out and quickly flips through it until she finds the picture she's looking for.

“Here,” she says breathlessly with a huge grin on her face. “These are the orbs I captured on Valentine's Day - look how many there are.”

Ms Williams, a ghost whisperer living in Maryborough, lives and breathes the spirit world - her eyes sparkle as she talks animatedly about the paranormal experiences she's had in the Heritage City.

“I love the spirit world. It's thrilling and rewarding and it's completely changed the way I lived my life.”

But Ms Williams hasn't been a believer long. It was only in 2003 after she lost her mother when she first started her “spiritual journey”.

“Things started to happen to me,” she said. “I was getting messages - at first I thought they were coincidences and then I thought maybe I was going a bit loopy.”

After that Ms Williams decided to read everything and anything she could get hands on about the spirit world.

“(Spirits) don't necessarily whisper in your ear. You get signs. But if you're afence sitter nothing is going to happen to you; you have to have 100% belief.

“They come to me because I have opened my mind and I truly believe.”

Ms Williams doesn't go looking for spirits - they come to her.

“Sometimes it's just a pull but I do see them, I feel them and I communicate with them. I try to help most go to the white light to cross over.”

She said one of her most cherished experiences was when she was sitting in her lounge room watching television when she felt something caressing her head.

“I knew straight away it was a loving spirit and luckily my camera was nearby. I took a picture of the top of my head and caught my mum's orb. I know it's her orb because it's pink.”

The spirits Ms Williams communicate with are from the “other side” or the earthbound spirits of humans who have passed away and not crossed over.

She has learnt to communicate with them and her “spirit guides” through meditation.

Ms Williams only started snapping pictures around her home and Maryborough last year after being given a small digital camera as a present.

Since then she has filled albums with pictures of a pink orb in various places around her house, pictures showing large numbers or different sized orbs, blue mists and dark shapes which she simply can't explain.

It's hard not to be a bit spooked when Ms Williams flips through her numerous photo albums and describes in detail each photograph.

“I get so excited every time I pick up my pictures from Big W. I don't have a computer so I can't look at them properly until I get them printed - it's always a thrill.”

'Sometimes it's just a pull but I do see them, I feel them and I communicate with them. I try to help most go to the white light to cross over'

Kerry says Maryborough would have to be one of the most haunted places in the country.

She reckons a classic example of the city's paranormal activity was last week during the region's close call with tropical ex-cyclone Hamish.

“When it storms you'll find more spirits around - they're drawn in by the energy and it makes the earthbound spirits from the dark side stronger,” she said.

“I went to the water towers on Ann Street to take pictures and when I saw how many were around I immediately asked for protection.

“Earthbound spirits from the dark side are real low lives - they exude violence and hate. They want to cause mayhem. Protection is important because they want to attach themselves to you.”

Ms Williams has had some frightening experiences with evil spirits over the past few years.

She said to protect herself she calls on her spirit guides and surrounds herself with a white light.

“To ward off bad spirits you burn white sage incense, frankincense or sage smudge sticks. They don't like perfume either.”